ancient judaism

The Neo-Assyrians had some influence on the development of Judaism politically, even trying to besiege Jerusalem and failing, and their transition from a sort of henothiestic worship of YHWH to full on monotheism, although the latter happened long after the Assyrians were gone. What if...

In a scenario with an unsuccessful maccabean revolt and continued Seleucid policies of hellenisation, how much more hellenised could jews under the empire become? If the Seleucids were to attempt near complete assimilation, what would be the best coarse of action (if possible)?

Note that by this time Christianity and Judaism had already diverged sufficiently for both communities to recognize each other as separate religions. The Mishnah had been compiled a century before; two centuries of Church Fathers have come and gone. There were approximately an equal number of...

Considering how enormously influential the Abrahamic religions are worldwide, you'd think there would be more analysis of how changes in the history of Jews and Judaism might affect things. So with that in mind, does anyone have any interesting ancient history PODs involving the Jewish people...